Bicycle-support.



Patented. Oct. 3, I899. w. H. HART, JR. BICYCLE SUPPORT.

(Application filed Bar. 6, 1899.) (No Model.)

THE NORRXS FETERS CO., PHOTO LITHO.. wxsmnorommc NITE STATES IVILLIAMII. HART, .18., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BICYCLE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,298, dated October3, 1899.

Application filed March 6,1899. Serial No. 707,920. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. HART, J12, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residingin the city and county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inBicycle-Supports, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a bicycle-support formed of a pedal-framehaving an opening in the side wall thereof and a leg formed with ajournal which is adapted to enter said opening, the adjacent portion ofthe leg being adapted to abut against the end wall of said frame forretaining the leg in operative position.

It also consists of a turnbuckle for retaining the leg in inoperativeposition on the pedal-frame, said turnbuckle being adapted to beprevented from releasing the leg during the ordinary motion of thepedal.

Figure 1 represents a perspective View of a bicycle-support embodying myinvention, the same being in operative position. Fig. 2 represents abottom plan view thereof. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section ofanother form of the invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a bicycle-pedal which, exceptingthe feature of my invention applied thereto, is of usual construction.

B designates a supporting device for a bicycle, the same consisting ofthe legs 0, with journals 0, which latter freely occupy openings D inthe transversely-eXtending side pieces of the pedal-frame E, whereby thedevice may be turned on said frame so as to be placed in comparativelyupright position, as in Fig. 1, in order to support a bicycle or infolded position on said frame when it is inoperative, as in Fig. 3, saiddevice having a broad base F for evident purposes.

When the device is in operative position, the upper portion of the legsOabut against the inner side of the longitudinally-extending front wallof the frame E, whereby its outward motion is limited 5 but it isevident that when the legs are drawn together the journals C emerge fromthe openings D, and the support is'accordingly removed from thepedalframe, and it may be placed in a pocket or carried in the satchelor bag of a bicycle or elsewhere. In order to retain the device ininoperative position when it is folded as has been stated, there ispivotally mounted on the pedal-shaft sleeve the turnbuckle or crossheadG, whose ends project across the legs 0 at an angle thereto, and thusengage with and control said legs, as most plainly shown in Fig. 2.When, however, the cross-head is turned sufficiently to clear the legs0, the latter are free, when they may be partly rotated to be placed inoperative position, the result being again as shown in Fig. 1.

In the frame E are slots H, which receive the ends of the turnbuckle orcross-head and cause said ends to be supported on the lower walls ofsaid slots, whereby the motions of the pedal will not materially aifectsaid turnbuckle and release the legs. In Fig. 2 the legs are foldedwithin the pedal-frame. In Fig.

3 the legs are folded outside of said frame.

'with an opening therein adjacent to said wall,

and a leg having a journal which is seated in said opening and adaptedto abut against said wall in the operative position of said support. 2.In a bicycle-support, a pedal-frame with a side piece and an end walland a sleeve by which said frame is mounted on the pedalshaft, a legjournaled in an opening in said frame and a cross-head which ispivotally connected wit-h said sleeve and adapted to pass under said legwhen the latter is in inoperative position, said frame being adapted tohave the ends of said cross-head enter the same.

\VILLIAM H. HART, JR. lVitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM,

WM. 0. WIEDERSHEIM.

